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  1. eik

    Ditching a friend for offensive beliefs?

    What's not confessing that Jesus has come in the flesh got to do with anything in this thread?
  2. eik

    Ditching a friend for offensive beliefs?

    Nothing obvious about that. You're hideously perverting the scriptures, aren't you? John talks about pretending to have no sins. There are little sins, and there are big sins. Sexual immorality was never tolerated in the early church. John isn't talking about homosexuality except in 1 John 5...
  3. eik

    Ditching a friend for offensive beliefs?

    There are lesser and greater sins. If you don't understand that may be you need to consider I John 5 &etc and study the sins of the Pharisees who classified divorce on demand as "non sinful."
  4. eik

    Ditching a friend for offensive beliefs?

    It does, because progressives and liberals do not find sexual immorality to be immoral. They have superseded the bible, if they hold themselves out to be Christians. I concur that the verse equally applies to hypocritical conservatives.
  5. eik

    Global Warming?

    May be you need to look a bit further: Global index finds climate change driving 'alarming' hunger levels
  6. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    So it's just your own opinion then. I care not as it is meaningless. I can safely say that the only persons who have ever accused me of being a misogynist are radical feminists with a pseudo-theological bent. Nature worshippers do not panic me. I find them boring, because they can't prove...
  7. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    Why not? Ultimately it's a question of power. Christians are not in power. But if they were they could do exactly that, i.e. force others who do not hold their religious beliefs to abide by those same standards, in the same way as large numbers of Americans who do not believe in the law of the...
  8. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    I didn't ask you to define the word. I asked for evidence. I fear you're just trying to appear hyper-intellectual. All things not Christianity are paganism, in Christian parlance, except Judaism. So I think we agree paganism is very wide and certainly includes devotees of all nature religions...
  9. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    Why should I answer one who has accused me of misogyny? As I said, if you don't understand spiritual things, the conversion is futile. In any event, why are you quoting male "spiritual" leaders. I would have supposed you would be quoting female ones to make your point. If you have no knowledge...
  10. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    It's time for you to start producing evidence once you start making allegations of apophenia Pagans make no pretence to spirituality, unless it be to the occult. You'll notice that in the age of equality, the rate of crime has increased massively. In England roughly double the number of sexual...
  11. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    Inequality was what was ordained Gen 3:16. If your religion is the earthly equality of women, I would ascribe you as a communist and / or feminist. I'm judging women as gullible on an empirical basis as well as on a biblical basis. Yet I'm not saying that they are worse sinners than men...
  12. eik

    Ditching a friend for offensive beliefs?

    You have to look at the hiearchy. Some of what I say really relates to the policies of the hiearachy (bishops etc). I fully agree that at the parish level, you could find wide variations of practice and belief. Wiki: "The 1976 General Convention also passed a resolution calling for an end to...
  13. eik

    Ditching a friend for offensive beliefs?

    The reference to it in scripture is to "detestable things." Your church is given over to gnosticism (of a sort), the effective replacement of biblical faith by the liberal dogma of an elite hierarchy that is given over to oppressing conservative voices, under the pretext of superior knowledge...
  14. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    My own personal experience. My interactions with females in "spiritural" command have never been happy. In fact it is easy to confuse them with witches, especially when subjects are broached that they are unable to defend theologically. Then they become ranters and accusers and slanderers at the...
  15. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    Again you're not seeing things coherently. Spiritual women do provide leadership, simply by their example. Formal leadership has to be approved by God in the church and he has not approved women for that role, for the divine order had been fixed since the beginning in 1 Cor 11:3. Over-promotion...
  16. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    May be it's you who have the problem, if you equate spirituality with leadership. You seem to have a serious lacunae in your understanding of spiritual or true religion. Jas 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their...
  17. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    It is not the case that all women are inferior. Thus in the OT, the prophetess Deborah led Israel when Israel suffered a dearth of spiritual men, as a punishment. What is the case is that women who seek elevation for themselves generally do not have pure motives. If their motives were pure they...
  18. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    Clearly women do not have a lower 'earthly' status in the modern Western democracy. I am talking only about the kingdom of God. Women are more prone to being deceived. They find rational argumentation difficult, and are often led by the devil into trying to reduce the kingdom of God to worldy...
  19. eik

    Evangelism and Hypocrisy

    Ok, so you repudiate biblical marriage. It's not a great start. I wouldn't know. This is conversation is about Biden. Waffle. That would be a medical emergency. Nothing new. Christianity in the USA is so shallow these days. Only some, but so what? USA has always had problems with...
  20. eik

    Who does not believe in freedom of choice in religion?

    It's axiomatic that women are more easily deceived than men, but it is also axiomatic that sinful men can be equally sinful as deceived women. 1 Tim 2:11-15.
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